General CommentI hadn't think of the "awake" thing like that... that's a nice theory.

It wasn't Dane's [girl]friend though, it was his fiancée... and she didn't drown in a lake, she got involved with a nasty religious drug cult and disappeared. She is presumed dead.
Dane said he started having dreams of her drowning years after it happened, and that's when he decided to write this album.